Summary of Suzanne Finstad's Child Bride

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#1 Priscilla Beaulieu was a teenager in 1963, in love with Elvis Presley, who wanted her to move into his compound in Memphis as his girlfriend-in-waiting while she finished high school and came of age. But Priscilla was in love with someone else.

#2 Anna Iversen, a young girl from New London, Connecticut, fell in love with a handsome navy man named James Wagner. She was not allowed to date him, so she used Fay Heim as cover.

#3 In 1942, the Beaver sailed to Roseneath, Scotland, with James Wagner aboard. The two exchanged love letters and became secretly engaged. Jimmy was sent back to the States to begin classes in March of 1943, and Rooney, who was then in her junior year, dropped out of high school about the same time.

#4 The air of mystery around Rooney’s elopement may have come from her parents’ disapproval of Jimmy. They may have wanted her to marry a millionaire, which he apparently was not.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350017892

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Priscilla Beaulieu was a teenager in 1963, in love with Elvis Presley, who wanted her to move into his compound in Memphis as his girlfriend-in-waiting while she finished high school and came of age. But Priscilla was in love with someone else.

#2

Anna Iversen, a young girl from New London, Connecticut, fell in love with a handsome navy man named James Wagner. She was not allowed to date him, so she used Fay Heim as cover.

#3

In 1942, the Beaver sailed to Roseneath, Scotland, with James Wagner aboard. The two exchanged love letters and became secretly engaged. Jimmy was sent back to the States to begin classes in March of 1943, and Rooney, who was then in her junior year, dropped out of high school about the same time.

#4

The air of mystery around Rooney’s elopement may have come from her parents’ disapproval of Jimmy. They may have wanted her to marry a millionaire, which he apparently was not.

#5

The first secret of the little girl who would marry Elvis Presley was that she was not, as the world believed for so long, Priscilla Beaulieu. Her real name was Priscilla Ann Wagner.

#6

Jimmy was killed in a plane crash on his way to the Roosevelt in November 1945. He had sent a telegram to his parents telling them that he had been killed, and they received the news via telegram and letter.

#7

After the crash, the Iversens, who had softened toward Jimmy, gathered in Titusville with the Wagners for the funeral. The local paper noted that Jimmy had attracted the largest number of mourners ever to call at the Flanders-Arnold Funeral Home.

#8

Ann’s life after Jimmy’s death was characterized by her intense devotion to her daughter, Priscilla. She took her daughter to a photographer for studio portraits, and soon she was entering her daughter in baby contests.

#9

Ann’s relationship with Paul Beaulieu was different than her relationship with Jimmy Wagner. She was in love with him, but he was not in the same league as her beau ideal. He provided her with security, stability, and an opportunity for her to focus on her daughter.

#10

Ann Beaulieu was afraid of how Paul Beaulieu would react if she mentioned Jimmy or his family. She made a decision soon after Donald was born: she would never again contact the Wagners, depriving her daughter of her paternal grandparents and separating Jimmy’s parents from their only grandchild.

#11

The Wagners, who considered Priscilla kidnapped, continued with their lives, heartbroken. They had already lost Jimmy; now their darling grandchild, the living link to their son, had been ripped from them.

#12

Priscilla was a typical six-year-old, except for the flashbacks she had to her past life, which were both familiar and strange. She loved her little brother Donny, but she was also very protective of her mother.

#13

Priscilla was a boy’s girl from a very young age. She had the instincts of a born coquette, and she was always surrounded by boys. She felt different from the other children, and she was aware that she did not look like her mother.

#14

Priscilla felt different from her brothers and sisters, because she knew there was a secret in her family. She imagined that she was born to different parents, that her real father was a faraway, unapproachable handsome prince.

#15

Priscilla was a very beautiful child, but she also had a strange premonition that something extraordinary was going to happen to her. She was not sure what or when, but she just knew that there was something big about to happen in her life.

#16

Priscilla’s childhood was marked by her parents’ constant moving. She was never accepted by the children at her new schools, and she was always the odd one out. She was very pampered, and her mother indulged her beauty.

#17

Priscilla was always reserved, and her classmates thought she was an extrovert. She was extremely modest, and people often misread her reserve as